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NAME

Konstrukt::Plugin::usermanagement::personal - Personal information about the user.

SYNOPSIS

Tag interface

        <& usermanagement::personal / &>
        

Perl interface

        #get some data:
        my $user_personal = use_plugin 'usermanagement::personal' or die;
        $user_personal->firstname();
        $user_personal->homepage();
        ...

DESCRIPTION

This plugin offers functionality to let each user manage some personal data of itself.

If the HTTP parameter id is set, the personal information page of the user with that id will be shown.

Otherwise a form to change the personal information of the user, which is currently logged in, will be shown.

DEPENDENCIES

This plugin create a new entry for every newly registered user and deletes it when the user deregisters.

To know when a user (de)registers, this plugin has to register itself for the registered and deregistered events, that the basic usermanagement plugin fires.

So this plugin must be initialized before the basic user management plugin is executed. For this to happen, you can preload this plugin like this on the page, where the basic usermanagement is executed:

        <& perl &>
                #preload plugins, which will react on events (register, deregister)
                use_plugin 'usermanagement::personal';
        <& / &>
        <& usermanagement::basic show="login, changepass, register, sendpass" / &>

CONFIGURATION

You have to do some konstrukt.settings-configuration to let the plugin know where to get its data and which layout to use. Defaults:

        #backend
        usermanagement/basic/backend DBI

See the documentation of the backend modules (e.g. "CONFIGURATION" in Konstrukt::Plugin::usermanagement::basic::DBI) for their configuration.

        #layout
        usermanagement/personal/template_path /templates/usermanagement/personal/

METHODS

init

Initializes this object. Sets $self->{backend} and $self->{template_path}

init() will be called the first time this plugin is needed each request.

install

Installs the templates.

Parameters:

none

execute_again

Yes, this plugin may return dynamic nodes (i.e. template nodes).

prepare

Prepare method

Parameters:

  • $tag - Reference to the tag (and its children) that shall be handled.

execute

Execute method

Parameters:

  • $tag - Reference to the tag (and its children) that shall be handled.

data

Returns all relevant user data as an anonymous hash, if uid exists:

   { nick => .., firstname => .., lastname => .., sex => ..,
     birth_year => .., birth_month => .., birth_day => ..,
     email => .., jabber => .., icq => .., aim => .., msn => .., yahoo => .., homepage => ...}

Returns an empty hash if the uid doesn't exist.

Parameters (optional):

  • $uid - The user id (optional)

get

Returns a specified personal information field for a specified user, if the uid exists, undef otherwise.

Parameters:

  • $uid - The user ID

  • $field - The requested personal information field, e.g. "firstname", "nick", ...

get wrappers

For an easier access to the data fields of an user you may also use these wapper methods:

  • firstname($uid)

  • lastname($uid)

  • nick($uid)

  • sex($uid)

  • birth_year($uid)

  • birth_month($uid)

  • birth_day($uid)

  • jabber($uid)

  • icq($uid)

  • aim($uid)

  • msn($uid)

  • yahoo($uid)

  • homepage($uid)

set

Sets the data specified in the passed hash in the database

Parameters:

  • $uid - The user ID

  • $data - Hashreference with the data that should be set: { firstname => .., nick => .., ... }

new_user

Creates a new entry for the given user id.

Parameters:

  • $uid - The user ID

del_user

Deletes an entry with the given user id.

Parameters:

  • $uid - The user ID

show

Shows the personal information of the user, whose id has been specified via HTTP, or of the current user, if no user id is specified. Only the user itself may change the user data.

Displays the form with the personal user information.

change

Changes the personal information specified in an HTTP POST request.

Returns a confirmation of the successful userdata change or error messages otherwise.

AUTHOR

Copyright 2006 Thomas Wittek (mail at gedankenkonstrukt dot de). All rights reserved.

This document is free software. It is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Konstrukt::Plugin::usermanagement::personal::DBI, Konstrukt::Plugin, Konstrukt